The Wright Brothers (Paperback)

from LynnB

David McCullough is a good writer and really animated the personalities of the Wright Brothers, his subjects. I learned a lot about them; for example, I didn't know about the rejection they faced in the U.S., or that Neil Armstrong carried a piece of their airplane to the moon. As the mother of t...

from hardlyhardy

One of the most amazing things about the Wright Brothers was that, though not twins, they seemed to share their genius equally. As David McCullough tells their story in his 2015 book "The Wright Brothers," they were dependent upon each other, yet virtually interchangeable in researching the scien...

from Karlstar

I thought this was a great telling of the Wright Brothers development of the first heavier than air flying machine and their subsequent efforts to teach it to others in the US and Europe. They didn't hide their accomplishment or try to monopolize it, unfortunately going too far and not profiting ...

from hcubic

What can you and your students learn from David McCullough's best-selling history of the first men to aviate? I think most readers will be as surprised as was I, that one of the reasons for their success, in contrast to their many predecessors and competitors, was that they spent hundreds of hour...

from dypaloh

"They would watch the gannets and imitate the movements of their wings with their arms and their hands. They could imitate every movement of the wings of those gannets; we thought they were crazy, but we just had to admire the way they could move their arms this way and that and bend their elbows...